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== Later Life ==
 
== Later Life ==
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Hiss was released in 1954. Disbarred, he became a salesman. Five years later, Alger and Priscilla Hiss separated.<ref>[[#refRicher04|Richer 2004]]: 309 (PDF 3)</ref> In the late '60s, Hiss met Mrs. Isabel Dowden Johnson, a former [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00103 editor at ''The New York Times'' and ex-wife] of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170660/bio the Communist]<ref>Cole, who titled his 1981 memoir ''Hollywood Red'', "remained a hardcore Communist" until his death in 1985. Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=J_BkAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Red Star Over Hollywood]'' (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005) ISBN 1893554961, p. 29; Cf. Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YWtZAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s]'' (Rocklin, Calif: Prima Publishing, 1998) ISBN 0761513760, pp. 266-267</ref> screen writer Lester Cole, a member of the "Hollywood Ten." Priscilla reportedly had a breakdown, in which she said she was “tired of all the [http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26929 lies and cover-ups],” and complained that "Alger was willing to sacrifice us all on the altar of his vindication."<ref>Ron Capshaw, "[http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28202 Portrait of an American Traitor]," FrontPageMagazine.com, September 24, 2007</ref> Following Priscilla's death in 1984, [http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/nyregion/isabel-j-hiss-91-widow-of-alger-hiss.html Alger and Isabel married].
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Hiss was released in 1954. Disbarred, he became a salesman. Five years later, Alger and Priscilla Hiss separated.<ref>[[#refRicher04|Richer 2004]]: 309 (PDF 3)</ref> In the late '60s, Hiss met Mrs. Isabel Dowden Johnson, a former [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00103 editor at ''The New York Times'' and ex-wife] of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170660/bio the Communist]<ref>Cole, who titled his 1981 memoir ''Hollywood Red'', "remained a hardcore Communist" until his death in 1985. Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=J_BkAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Red Star Over Hollywood]'' (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005) ISBN 1893554961, p. 29; Cf. Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YWtZAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s]'' (Rocklin, Calif: Prima Publishing, 1998) ISBN 0761513760, pp. 266-267</ref> screen writer Lester Cole, a member of the "Hollywood Ten." Priscilla reportedly had a breakdown, in which she said she was “tired of all the [[#refCapshaw07|lies and cover-ups]],” and complained that "Alger was willing to [http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28202 sacrifice us all] on the altar of his vindication." Following Priscilla's death in 1984, [http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/nyregion/isabel-j-hiss-91-widow-of-alger-hiss.html Alger and Isabel married].
    
As a result of his role in the Hiss case, [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] had been elected to the [[Senate]] in 1950; two years later [[GOP]] Presidential Candidate [[Dwight Eisenhower]] made him his running mate. Unable to forgive Nixon for his part in nailing Hiss,<ref>Klaus P. Fischer, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sCXig_6abwkC America in White, Black, and Gray: The Stormy 1960s]'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006) ISBN 0826418163, p. 240</ref> the establishment launched an [http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=131 unprecedented liberal media attack] against him. That year, [[Whittaker Chambers|Chambers]] wrote to Nixon:
 
As a result of his role in the Hiss case, [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] had been elected to the [[Senate]] in 1950; two years later [[GOP]] Presidential Candidate [[Dwight Eisenhower]] made him his running mate. Unable to forgive Nixon for his part in nailing Hiss,<ref>Klaus P. Fischer, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sCXig_6abwkC America in White, Black, and Gray: The Stormy 1960s]'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006) ISBN 0826418163, p. 240</ref> the establishment launched an [http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=131 unprecedented liberal media attack] against him. That year, [[Whittaker Chambers|Chambers]] wrote to Nixon:
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